Introducing the Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes gateway for hybrid Kubernetes networking
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now offers the Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes gateway, a feature that automates networking between your Amazon EKS cluster VPC and Kubernetes Pods running on Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes. The Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes gateway eliminates the need to make on-premises pod networks routable or coordinate network infrastructure changes when running in hybrid Kubernetes environments.
Networking in hybrid Kubernetes environments can be complex, often requiring changes to on-premises routing configurations, coordination with network teams, and ongoing maintenance as workloads scale. The Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes gateway addresses these challenges by automatically enabling Kubernetes control plane-to-webhook communication, pod-to-pod traffic across cloud and on-premises environments, and connectivity for AWS services such as Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers, and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. Customers deploy the Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes gateway to Amazon EC2 instances using Helm, and the gateway automatically maintains VPC route tables as workloads scale. The Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes gateway codebase is open source.
The Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes gateway is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes is available, except the China Regions. The Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes gateway is offered at no additional charge. You pay for the underlying AWS infrastructure used to run the gateway, including Amazon EC2 instance charges and any associated data transfer fees. To get started, visit the Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes gateway documentation.